Team/Francesco Cesaroni

Francesco Cesaroni graduated in law from the Luigi Bocconi University of Milan in 2007, with a thesis on European Union law entitled “Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services in the European insurance market”. He worked for a leading national law firm and spent several months at Pigott Stinson in Sydney. Francesco then also worked with McDermott Will & Emery first, and then Hi.lex, where he was mainly involved in commercial and corporate law matters, assisting clients in extraordinary transactions and insolvency proceedings, with a particular focus on private debt and restructuring, as well as private equity. From 2017 to 2018, Francesco provided his services on a secondment in the legal department of a major asset management company specialising in alternative investment funds. He joined Orsingher Ortu – Avvocati Associati in 2020.  He has been registered with the Milan Bar Association since 2013. He is fluent in English and Spanish and has a basic knowledge of French.

PRACTICE AREA

Restructuring & Insolvency

Our firm specialises in the areas of debt restructuring and insolvency proceedings, protecting assets as well as businesses and and their asset values. The department assists leading Italian and international corporates and groups of companies, financial institutions, investment funds and receivers in complex reorganisations and financial restructuring, including litigation proceedings and judicial disputes related those proceedings, as well as in the context of acquisitions related to distressed assets and “special situations”. [open_background background_title="Areas of activity" background_sub_title="The department has developed a number of specific areas of focus and primarily offers advice and assistance in the following areas:"][/open_background] [text_boxed_cento text_content="negotiation and drafting of agreements for the restructuring of corporate debt, including by way of certified recovery plans (“piani attestati di risanamento”), debt restructuring agreements (“accordi di ristrutturazione del debito”), standstill agreements and in connection with reorganisation procedures (“concordati preventivi”);"][/text_boxed_cento] [text_boxed_cento text_content="assistance in commencing insolvency and reorganization proceedings and in all judicial phases of the concordato preventivo and of the process for validation of the agreement for restructuring of debt (accordi di ristrutturazione del debito);"][/text_boxed_cento] [text_boxed_cento text_content="assistance and advice in extraordinary transactions involving companies in financial distress, including in the context of insolvency proceedings in relation to both corporates and financial creditors, as well as to potential investors, including the transfer of holdings, businesses, assets, credits, (including in bulk, capital increases, mergers, divisions and transformations of companies; financial structuring, negotiation and implementation of loans, including in the context of debt restructuring and insolvency proceedings;"][/text_boxed_cento] [text_boxed_cento text_content="assistance in bankruptcy proceedings, extraordinary administrations (“amministrazioni straordinarie”), compulsory administrative liquidations (“liquidazioni coatte amministrative”), concordati preventivi and bankruptcy agreements (“concordati fallimentari”);"][/text_boxed_cento] [text_boxed_cento text_content="assistance and advice on labour law issues that may arise in relation to the composition of the business crisis and insolvency procedures, as well as to extraordinary transactions involving companies in crisis or subject to insolvency procedures."][/text_boxed_cento]

PRACTICE AREA

Banking & finance

Our banking and finance department offers high level assistance in all areas of banking and finance law, with a particular focus on acquisition finance, real estate finance, project finance and restructuring. Our team advises domestic and international clients, financial institutions, investment funds and leading companies in a variety of sectors, including luxury & fashion, digital & media, food, chemicals, automotive, real estate, energy and industrial manufacturing. [open_background background_title="Areas of activity" background_sub_title="We have particular expertise in (and advise regularly on) the following matters:"][/open_background] [text_boxed_cento text_content="Corporate finance transactions"][/text_boxed_cento] [text_boxed_cento text_content="Bridge financing"][/text_boxed_cento] [text_boxed_cento text_content="Negotiation of syndicated loans"][/text_boxed_cento] [text_boxed_cento text_content="Structuring and implementing acquisition finance, with particular regard to the multi-jurisdictional aspects of those transactions"][/text_boxed_cento] [text_boxed_cento text_content="Mezzanine financing"][/text_boxed_cento] [text_boxed_cento text_content="Assisting lenders and real estate funds on the structuring of real estate finance"][/text_boxed_cento] [text_boxed_cento text_content="Project finance"][/text_boxed_cento] [text_boxed_cento text_content="Debt restructuring"][/text_boxed_cento] [close_background][/close_background]

francesco.cesaroni@orsingher.com